2004-05 News
High school students participate in week-long summer program
Dozens of high school students from Virginia and beyond participated in "Inside Architecture and Design," a week-long summer program hosted by the School of Architecture + Design, June 27 through July 1, 2005.
1 June 2005
NCARB Prize awarded to “Chicago Studio”
Chicago Studio has been awarded the NCARB Prize (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) for the Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy.
1 May 2005
Frank Weiner Wins First Place in the Competition for the EAAE Prize 2003-2005
Frank H. Weiner, associate professor in the School of Architecture + Design has won the European Association for Architectural Education Prize 2003-2005. A biennial international competition on the subject of architectural education, the EAAE Prize was first awarded in 1991, "with the aim to stimulate original writings on the subject of architectural education in order to improve the quality of architectural education in Europe.
15 April 2005
Timothy Castine, international photography award winner
Timothy Castine, Woodshop Technician, recently won several national and international photography awards.
10 April 2005
Sean Wheeler wins C2C Competition
Sean Wheeler, a fifth year Architecture student in Professor Michael O'Brien's studio, was awarded first place in the student category in the 2004 Cradle-to-Cradle Home Design Competition
5 April 2005
Virginia Tech students Win Honorable Mention in the ACSA / Steel Tube Institute Charrette
Three students in the School of Architecture + Design received an honorable mention award in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) / Steel Tube Institute Charrette at the ACSA 2005 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
4 April 2005
ID Student Finalists - Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement
Students from Virginia Tech's Interior Design Program, in the School of Architecture + Design are finalists in Hospitality Design Magazaine's annual Hospitality Design Awards for Creative Achievement. Four finalists were selected in the Student Project category and two of those winners were Virginia Tech interior design students.
15 March 2005
National Building Museum Exhibition
Several faculty members at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center participated in creating an exhibition entitled "Tools of the Imagination," at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
1 March 2005
Michael Ermann hosts Acoustical Society conference—CAUS students recognized
Michael Ermann, assistant professor of architecture, hosted the fall conference of the North Carolina chapter of the Acoustical Society of America (NC-ASA) in Blacksburg.
1 January 2005
History Channel shows Mehdi Setareh’s Virtual Reality earthquake research
The History Channel aired clips from Mehdi Setareh's research on testing the design of high-rise buildings to withstand earthquakes.
13 December 2004
Interior Design students win two of four IDEC Student Design Competition awards
Interior Design students in the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech won two of the four awards presented in the 2004-2005 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Student Design Competition.
12 December 2004
Marilyn Casto presents paper in London at “Literature and the Domestic Interior” symposium
Marilyn Casto, associate professor of interior design, delivered a paper titled "Imagined Spaces: L.M. Montgomery and Domestic Interiors" at the Literature and the Domestic Interior symposium.
11 December 2004
Hunter Pittman and four students interviewed for WDBJ-TV Roanoke
Hunter Pittman, professor of architecture, and four fifth-year architecture students had two minutes of fame Friday, December 10.
10 December 2004